Office Building 2226, Lustenau, Austria

Eco-Classicism: Responding to technological eco-mania purely with the basics of sustainable architecture in Office Building 2226

“Use the best possible materials and reveal the qualities of those materials and the craftsmanship of their assembly.”

Karl Friedrich Schinkel

“Less is more.”
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

When talking to colleagues, we have often lamented our own fate in having to adapt our architectural solutions to the unfavourable and changing local climatic conditions of Europe, where, in the space of a year, we experience both extremes in terms of temperature, apparently requiring technologically complex and expensive planning, as well as a lot of delving into details.